Avons Quotes & Sayings

They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. — William Faulkner

Passing over them [Egyptian kings], then, I will mention the person who reigned after them, whose name was Sesotris. [ ... ] Whenever he encountered a brave people who put up a fierce fight in defence of their autonomy, he erected pillars in their territory with an inscription recording his own name and country, and how he and his army has overcome them. However, when he took a place easily, without a fight, he had a message inscribed on the pillar in the same way as for the brave tribes, but he also added a picture of a woman's genitalia, to indicate that they where cowards. 2-[102] — Herodotus

I've spoken out my whole life against the idea of simply dismissing whole areas of fiction by saying it's "genre" and therefore can't be seen as literature. — Stephen King

Our perception of reality has less to do with what's happening out there, and more to do with what's happening inside our brain. Your — David Eagleman

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Don't mourn me. Be joyful. — Tomson Highway

We have a thousand possible, but only one is the target. (Nous avons mille possibles, - Mais un seul est la cible) — Charles De Leusse

Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life. — Jean Giraudoux

Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! — Chevy Stevens

It's not the surprise that matters, it's how you react to it. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe